I hate this timeline.

I cannot stress how important it is for people to get a solid VPN and learn how to use it before that happens.

Y'know the best (worst) part about being independent when writing something like this?

Being accountable to only yourself

AKA; why I had to double check everything from the ACLU petition, to the mildly suspect HR987 and S401 bills, to the weird name of the studio who made No Mercy, to Itch's font.

It’s legitimately scary that in 2025 a sizable portion of American society thinks it was a mistake giving women the right to no-fault divorce, credit, and voting.

– beyond this, don't discuss political angles explicitly if at all possible, those will be counterproductive"

even spreading this thread and others like it will help. this is a really big one.

"focus on discussing concerns around a lack of payment system neutrality, erosion of trust in payment reliability, undue influence of lobbying in personal business and livelihood; proceed to censorship concerns last and only if the person on the other end is not combative.

visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help.

this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls.

we can beat them

phone numbers and a script:

Mastercard (US): +1-914 249-2000
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): +1 (650) 432-3200
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

Mastercard (Aus): 1800-120-113

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (CA): 1-800-307-7309
Mastercard (UK): 0800-96-4767

art based off this post: www.reddit.com/r/Losercity/...

anyway TERFs eat shit, people platforming TERF products eat shit, and that is the official position of my trans magical girl universe if you would like to support an indie self-published trans author

magicariot.com/buy

So, I'm in a bundle that was already planned months ago. All of the creators in the bundle have set it so that itch gets 0% for it and all our other sales. I'm gonna leave my books on Itch and make them force me off. I'm gonna scrub the pages so they will actually have to read my books to find out

Folks, as part of this whole crackdown on art: do not self report. Don't put things in summaries, don't do itemized lists of what is in your work. Make it hard for the censors to catch you. Make them read the whole thing. They usually won't.

These new guidelines basically force authors who rely on itch.io money to choose between trigger warnings for their readers and trying to fly under the radar so their shit doesn't get deleted.

It's not a good look for a site that once had all the indie goodwill it could ever want.

I will almost certainly not be publishing anything through itchio in the future, which means my Patreon is now the best place to find my short fiction, essays about comics, and whatever random stuff I decide to post

Currently available:
- Another Engineer story
- A mechsploitation thing
- X-EGESIS

I don't have to add anything to Autumn, complete agree.

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:

- Lawn care
- Automated car wash attendant
- Cafeteria salad maker
- Gas station attendant
- Spirit Halloween employee (Boo!) - about my favorite job ever
- Computer Science peer teacher (like an undergraduate TA)